Creek Backs School Parents

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COCONUT CREEK -- Parents fighting the proposed shift of their children to a mostly black elementary school will get help from the city, the City Council decided Thursday night.

Council members voted to have city staff help the parents assemble statistical data for the battle with the Broward School Board. And council members said they will prepare a resolution of support, to be voted on in two weeks.

The dispute is over a school redistricting proposal to shift children from an area of southern Coconut Creek to Sanders Park Elementary School, east of Interstate 95 in Pompano Beach.